3 runaway minors cook up kidnapping story; reunite with kin

Three teenagers, including two brothers, who had left their homes in Nashik and told a fake kidnapping story to police, were reunited with their families here, city police said.
According to police, the trio had left their homes in Nashik without intimating their parents and came to Thane just for fun. They were reunited with their families late last night.
"Last evening around 7.30 PM, these three visibly panicked boys came to the traffic outpost near Thane station, seeking the help of the constable on duty. They told the police that they had been abducted from Ashok Nagar in Nashik and were brought to Thane in a white car by kidnappers," DCP Traffic Dr Rashmi Karandikar said.

"The boys told the police that when the car came near Ambedkar statue near the station, they jumped out and escaped from the clutches of the kidnappers," she said.
Believing their version, the policeman on duty alerted the police control room and went to the location to check for the said white car, but did not find any such vehicle there.
Meanwhile, Karandikar received the message about the case and rushed to the scene.

The police team later took the contact numbers from the boys and contacted their parents. However, their parents informed the police that their children had gone to Thane just for fun and without intimating them. Their parents also told the police that the story of kidnapping as told by the boys was false.

Police said that since the boys wanted to return home, they might have cooked up a false story.
The parents of the trio later came to Thane late last night and after recording of statements, the boys were handed over to them, police said.